Monday, January 23, 2006

Movie Recommendations


Have you seen an awesome movie lately? It can be a new, old, funny, dramatic, great, or a guilty pleasure.
Tells us about it -
** What it is
** What it's about
**Why you like it/ Why one would enjoy it
** Anything else

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1 comment:

Matt said...

Well, I'll go with Ball of Fire, from 1941, a Howard Hawks comedy. Most of it's set in a house filled with professors, working on an encyclopedia. Almost all of them are really old, except for Gary Cooper, the linguist working on an article about modern American slang.

Barbara Stanwyck plays a gangster's girlfriend and nightclub singer who has to hide out, and does so by conning the old men into letting her stay at their place while she seduces Gary Cooper (while he researches her use of modern American slang - neat!).

At first, it's just to get him to let her stay at the place, but then...well, I don't want to spoil it for you. It's really funny and very romantic.

I saw it when I was a little kid - my older brother was an old film kinda guy, and I watched it once with him. It has lots of comedy and the smart language guy gets the hot ba...I mean, Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck are a charming couple.

I totally fell for Stanwyck after this movie. She's witty and smart and talented and pretty foxy, too. There's a neat scene where she's doing her nightclub number, singing along to only one guy who's playing wooden matches for accompaniment. It's totally sweet.

The movie's very very hard to find on DVD, and I think the last time I saw it was offa cable. Much more available is The Lady Eve, in which Stanwyck plays a similar character - she's a con artist who cons and then falls for Henry Fonda, who's the heir of a beer fortune, engrossed in little other than herpetology. And that's a pretty good movie, too.

I must say that I have a warm spot in my heart for "clever fox seduces awkward professor type" movies. For whatever reason.